Tag: alzheimer’s prevention

Reduce Dementia Risk with These Lifestyle Choices

6 Lifestyle Choices to Reduce Dementia Risk including Alzheimer’s Your risk of developing Alzheimer’s and dementia increases as you grow older, and these diseases are not as rare as you think. In fact, they are quite common. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and dementia...

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Certain Drugs Can Trigger or Slow Alzheimer’s

Good or Bad? Hmmm. Certain widely prescribed medications can trigger or slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease, according to recently published research. A Mount Sinai Medical Center team screened 1,600 FDA-approved medications, using a computer algorithm to determine which drugs are associated with blocking or stimulating beta amyloid accumulation. Amyloid...

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Stress Can Accelerate Alzheimer’s

Stress-induced hormones produced by the brain can increase an individual‰Ûªs risk of developing Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease and accelerate the development of Alzheimer‰Ûªs in individuals already suffering from the disease.This study is the first to discover the precise mechanism that causes stress-induced Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. When the brain is stressed, it produces steroids...

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